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  • Palm trees surround an archway leading to a building

    Florida
    Judge scraps date for Trump Mar-a-Lago documents trial without rescheduling

  • A large warehouse with the roof caved in, vehicles in the foreground, with wet pavement and a cloudy sky.

    Michigan
    Dozens of people trapped when tornado collapses FedEx building

    • Ukraine war briefing
      ‘Rocket, drone, rocket’ – alleged plots to kill Zelenskiy, Budanov

    • New York
      Judge blocks abortion rights amendment due to go before voters

    • US congress
      Republican candidate loses Indiana primary in victory to pro-Israel lobbyists

    • Ron DeSantis
      Florida ex-cop with ‘patterns of abuse and bias’ joins state guard

    • Syria
      US repatriates two dozen westerners from Islamic State camp

    • ‘They can take a dip whenever’
      Family of bears cools off in California pool

In focus

  • Solomon Islands MP Cathy Nori.

    ‘I can rise above expectations’
    The woman breaking barriers in Pacific politics

  • A foreground of three high, rounded window frames and a man in silhouette, with smoke rising from an urban landscape beyond him.

    Joe Biden’s ‘red line’ is an invasion of Rafah
    So what happens if Israel attacks?

  • Bryony Page Simone Biles, and Holly Bradshaw

    Paris Olympic Games 2024
    Mental health kits and AI to help Olympians with pressure and abuse

    IOC will use Paris 2024 to promote wellness among athletes after concerns raised over mental health in sport

Spotlight

  • image of money ring marble background

    ‘I wanted to look and feel expensive’
    Four couples on why they took on wedding debt

    More than half of couples take on debt to finance their weddings. We asked some how they feel about it
  • ‘They censored the beauty of a young girl’ … Zafreen Zairizal in Tiger Stripes, which the rest of world can see uncut.

    ‘It was terrifying – but screw it’
    The director who disowned her film in order to get an Oscar nomination

  • Sphynx cat

    Cats
    Sphynx has lowest life expectancy of domestic cat breeds, research finds

    The hairless cats live on average for just 6.8 years, while a Burmese could survive to be 14, according to research
  • black and white photo of woman half smiling, with hazy gray and orange colors around the photo

    Anne Lamott on love, sobriety and reaching 70
    ‘All I’ve learned, I’ve learned because the abyss swallowed me’

    The American author’s 20th book reads as a series of parables on grace. In an interview, she reflects on a life she thought she wouldn’t get to live
    • Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep in Heartburn.

      From meet-cute to marriage breakdown
      Streep and Nicholson shine in Nora Ephron’s bittersweet Heartburn

    • Stephen Colbert: ‘Donald Trump could go to Rikers Island. My condolences to whatever prison guard has to conduct the cavity search. Wear a headlamp.’

      Stephen Colbert on Trump trial
      ‘In a twist no one saw coming, he remained conscious’

    • Zendaya wearing a vintage couture Givenchy gown from 1996.

      Met Gala 2024
      Where power lies in fashion – which makes Zendaya’s choice intriguing

    • Felicity Cloake's perfect quiche.

      Unleash the quiche
      Tips for springtime tarts

Opinion

  • Rudy Giuliani in 2020.

    Could you get by on a measly $43,000 a month? It seems Rudy Giuliani can’t

    Arwa Mahdawi
    Trump’s disgraced former attorney somehow frittered away almost $120,000 in January. As a cash-strapped millennial, Arwa Mahdawi is delighted to share some money-saving tips
  • Ranjana Srivastava

    What is the most important word in medicine? It is not what we teach doctors

    Ranjana Srivastava
  • Displaced Palestinians flee Rafah with their belongings to safer areas in the southern Gaza Strip.

    The Guardian view
    On hope and despair in Gaza: attacking Rafah will compound this disaster

    Editorial: Israel’s evacuation orders and seizure of the key crossing are exacerbating the suffering of Palestinians and endangering hostages
  • Lana Del Rey wearing an elaborate headdress at the Met Gala.

    Frock horror! In these dark times, let us be grateful for the ludicrous spectacle of the Met Gala

    Marina Hyde
    Roll up for a buffet of baffling outfits, celebs scared stiff of Anna Wintour and an utter refusal to acknowledge the outside world, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
    • Destruction in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip<br>epa11310580 A Palestinian man walks past destroyed buildings in Khan Younis after the Israeli military pulled out troops from the southern Gaza Strip, 30 April 2024. According to the United Nations, it will take years to clear the around 23 millions tonnes of rubble and unexploded weapons currently scattered across the Gaza Strip. EPA/MOHAMMED SABER

      Israel is banning Al Jazeera, America is banning TikTok. We know why

      Seth Stern
    • Illustration by Lilian Darmono

      The science on endometriosis is finally breaking through – so why do treatments feel stuck in the past?

      Lucy Pasha-Robinson
    • A house in Rafah damanged by an Israeli airstrike.

      There’s one thing standing in the way of a ceasefire: Netanyahu’s refusal to compromise

      Simon Tisdall
    • BRITAIN-FRANCE-LIFESTYLE-FOOD-PRISON<br>TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY ALICE RITCHIE Prisoners work in the kitchen at the Clink Restaurant ahead of the lunch service inside Brixton Prison in south London on March 15, 2016. Accessed through three security gates and located in a courtyard ringed with high fences and barbed wire, The Clink at Brixton Prison in south London serves up to 120 members of the public for lunch each day. It is one of four such restaurants run by The Clink charity, which aims to give inmates the skills and qualifications needed to start a new life when they are released. / AFP / JUSTIN TALLIS / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY ALICE RITCHIE (Photo credit should read JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images)

      Appetizing, delicious food served up to prisoners? It works for the Nordic countries

      Lucy Vincent

Sports

  • NBA Playoffs - Minnesota Timberwolves at Denver Nuggets<br>epa11323594 Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards celebrates after scoring and drawing a foul in the fourth quarter of game two of the Western Conference semifinal series between the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Denver Nuggets at Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado, USA, 06 May 2024. EPA/DUSTIN BRADFORD SHUTTERSTOCK OUT

    NBA playoffs
    Defending champion Nuggets reeling after Timberwolves blowout

    The Nuggets unravelled against a short-handed Minnesota team in a 106-80 defeat. Denver are now in a two-game hole in the best-of-seven series
  • Erik ten Hag looks at the roof of the dugout prior to the FA Cup match between Nottingham Forest and Manchester United

    Ten Hag’s exit may be near but when will the Man Utd cycle stop?

    Jonathan Liew
    Change is probably coming with Manchester United playing so badly, so often, but this is a club trapped in constant transition
    • Inter Miami have scored 32 goals in 12 MLS games this season.

      Inter Miami
      Record-breaking attack has eased pressure on Martino

    • Carlo Ancelotti and his Real Madrid players

      Champions League
      Bad blood can spur on Madrid to give Ancelotti revenge

    • Bryony Page Simone Biles, and Holly Bradshaw

      Paris 2024
      Mental health kits and AI to help athletes with pressure and abuse

    • Victor Wembanyama has been a revelation in his first NBA season

      NBA
      Wembanyama named unanimous rookie of the year after stunning debut season

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Climate crisis

  • Workers installing solar panels in India

    Environment
    Renewable energy passes 30% of world’s electricity supply

  • David R Boyd, United Nations special rapporteur for the environment and human rights.

    Climate crisis
    UN expert attacks ‘exploitative’ world economy in fight to save planet

  • An oilfield near Baku

    Exclusive
    Poorer nations must be transparent over climate spending, says Cop29 leader

  • A man rides a rental bike in Baku, Azerbaijan, where the UN climate change conference will convene in November.

    Cop29
    Summit to call for peace between warring states, says host Azerbaijan

Across the country

  • People hold pro-abortion rights placards in front of the supreme court building.

    Abortion
    Restrictions tied to higher rates of intimate partner homicide, says study

    For each of the five studied abortion restrictions, risk of intimate partner homicide increased by 3.4% in new study
  • Aerial view of cargo ship loaded with container with a crumpled iron-truss bridge of top of it and severed in two.

    Baltimore bridge collapse
    Body of last missing worker recovered

  • A Boy Scouts uniform.

    Boy Scouts
    Organization changes name following bankruptcy and sexual abuse claims

  • Palestine Rally at Columbia University in New York, US - 23 Apr 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jimin Kim/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock (14447472p) Former New York City mayor, Rudy Giuliani, is seen in a vehicle that is driving past a pro-Palestine rally at Columbia University. Pro-Palestine demonstrators rallied at one of the entrances at Columbia University in Manhattan, New York City condemning the Israel Defense Forces' military operations in Gaza. Since last week, students and pro-Palestine activists inside the university have held a sit-in protest on the lawn, forming a "Gaza Solidarity Encampment." Students in other universities have been forming similar encampments in campuses nationwide in support of Palestine. Since the war started on October 7, 2023, Gaza's health ministry said more than 34,000 people have been killed in Gaza, a territory ruled by Hamas. The death toll does not differentiate between civilians and combatants. Palestine Rally at Columbia University in New York, US - 23 Apr 2024

    ‘Nobody seems interested’
    Rudy Giuliani struggles to find an accountant

    • Joe Biden
      US president warns against ‘surge of antisemitism’ at Holocaust event

    • Reddit
      Shares rise more than 15% in first quarterly earnings since going public

    • Charged Lemonade
      Panera to pull caffeinated beverages connected to at least two deaths

    • Elizabeth Holmes
      Theranos fraudster has prison sentence reduced again

    • Weather
      Tornado kills one in Oklahoma as Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana face severe storms

    • TikTok
      Company sues US to block law forcing sale of the app

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Around the world

  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy standing in front of two microphones.

    Ukraine
    Zelenskiy assassination plot foiled by security service, says country

    Two Ukrainian colonels allegedly recruited by FSB to kill president as inauguration ‘gift’ for Vladimir Putin
  • Passengers queuing at Heathrow airport

    UK
    E-gates ‘back online’ after chaos at Heathrow and other UK airports

  • Plane on water with city landscape in the back

    Brazil
    Flooding death toll rises to 90 as more than 155,000 people displaced

  • A matador in a white costume holding a bright pink cape next to a bull in motion in a bullring

    Spain
    Bullfighting firm in Seville to give free tickets to under-eights

    • ‘Magical moment’
      Fire-ravaged Brazil museum receives big fossil donation

    • Russia
      Putin sworn in for fifth term in ceremony boycotted by US and UK

    • London
      Garrick Club votes to accept female members for first time

    • Xi Jinping
      Serbia prepares warm welcome for Chinese president in contrast to China-EU tensions

    • Global development
      Soaring remittances to developing nations overtake foreign direct investment

    • UK
      British woman admits role in global monkey torture network

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Podcasts

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  • Picture of Marc Conway with beard against dark background with shaft of light running through

    Today in Focus
    The London Bridge ‘hero’ who could go to prison for 99 years

  • Head coach of Chelsea Emma Hayes waves at the fans with her son Harry during the Barclays FA Womens Super League game between Chelsea and Bristol City.

    The Guardian's Women's Football Weekly
    Chelsea reignite WSL title hopes after City slip up – Women’s Football Weekly

  • An abandoned mosque outside the seawall in Muara Baru, Jakarta. (Photograph by Kemal Jufri for The Guardian)

    Science
    Why are the world’s cities sinking? – podcast

  • Bassim Haidar

    Today in Focus
    Non-doms are threatening to leave. Should they be convinced to stay?

  • Manchester City v Wolverhampton Wanderers, Premier League, Football, Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK - 04 May 2024<br>EDITORIAL USE ONLY No use with unauthorised audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or "live" services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club/league/player publications. Mandatory Credit: Photo by David Blunsden/Action Plus/REX/Shutterstock (14461108dx) Erling Haaland of Manchester City celebrates after scoring with a header past Jose Sa of Wolverhampton Wanderers for 2-0 after 35 minutes; Etihad Stadium, Manchester, England; Premier League Football, Manchester City versus Wolverhampton Wanderers. Manchester City v Wolverhampton Wanderers, Premier League, Football, Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK - 04 May 2024

    Football Weekly
    Haaland destroys Wolves as City and Arsenal keep winning – Football Weekly

  • A woman breaking sandstone in Rajasthan, India. Photograph: Romita Saluja

    The Audio Long Read
    How child labour in India makes the paving stones beneath our feet – podcast

  • Mark and Ros Dowey, the parents of Murray Dowey (Photo: Murdo MacLeod)

    Today in Focus
    How do we protect teenagers from sextortion scams?

Culture

  • Toronto Police investigate a shooting outside the mansion of rapper Drake in Toronto's Bridle Path neighborhood, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Paramedics said a security guard working outside the home was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries in an overnight shooting. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

    Canada
    Drake’s security guard ‘seriously injured’ in shooting at Toronto mansion

    Guard was shot inside Drake’s home and had serious but non-life-threatening injuries, while the assailant fled in a vehicle
  • The AI contestant in The Circle.

    ‘A chilling prospect’
    Should we be scared of AI contestants on reality shows?

  • Hargobind Tahilramani, the so-called Hollywood Con Queen

    ‘He had a remorseless drive to punish others’
    The man who duped Hollywood

  • This image released by 20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios shows Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool/Wade Wilson and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine/Logan in a scene from "Deadpool &amp; Wolverine." (20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios via AP)

    Film
    Disney to ‘focus on quality’ as it plans to cut output – including Marvel movies

  • Closeup of the yellow Cloud 3, which has circle and arrow symbols on the fret board

    Prince
    Singer's guitar could fetch $600,000 at auction

  • Robert Downey Jr.

    Broadway
    Robert Downey Jr to make stage debut this year

Lifestyle

  • Tuna mornay

    That’s a mornay
    Sarah Pound’s simple tinned tuna recipes

    The cookbook author – Instagram’s @wholesomebysarah – cracks open an underrated pantry staple for a cheesy childhood favourite, an easy salad and a weeknight pasta
  • Garments on display in the Met Costume Institute's spring 2024 exhibition Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion

    Met exhibition review
    2024’s spring show is a feast for the senses

  • Man looking despondently at his watch

    Sexual healing
    My wife rarely instigates sex – and always wants to schedule it. Why can’t she be more spontaneous?

  • passengers dancing on the Techno Train

    'Less abrasive than I’d expected'
    Why clubbers are raving about Germany’s cross-country Techno Train

  • Tamal Ray's kedgeree.

    Kedgeree and lamb curry
    Tamal Ray’s recipes for homely favorites

  • a woman cleans up her garden and pond

    Can I get a little more eco-friendly every day?
    Four tips for a greener mindset

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  • Dozens of students arrested at the occupied Hamilton Hall building of Columbia University in New York<br>NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - APRIL 30: New York Police Department officers detain dozens of pro-Palestinian students at Columbia University after they barricaded themselves at the Hamilton Hall building near Gaza Solidarity Encampment earlier in New York, United States on April 30, 2024. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    US students
    Share your experience of the pro-Palestinian campus protests

  • People queue outside the Hermes store in Mayfair in London, Monday, April 12, 2021.

    Tell us
    Are you splurging on luxury goods you can ill afford?

  • UKRAINE-RUSSIA-WAR-CONFLICT<br>Gunners from 43rd Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine prepare to fire at Russian position with a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer 2C22 "Bohdana", in the Kharkiv region, on April 21, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. (Photo by Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP) (Photo by ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images)

    Ukrainian men abroad
    Share your views on Poland and Lithuania’s statements on conscription

  • A young businessman riding skateboard in the city of Barcelona, Spain.

    Tell us
    How do you make your commute fun or productive?

From our global editions

  • Salman Rushdie in a shirt and jacket, with a moustache and goatee and glasses that have the righthand frame darkened, looking serious

    Salman Rushdie: Through A Glass Darkly review
    A harrowing first-person account of a knife attack

  • Men walk down the steps of a building. They wear matching pink and blue ties

    ‘No longer remotely defensible’
    British men-only club's decision to admit women shows times have changed

  • Egg and pants man … Teemu Keisteri, AKA Windows95man, performing No Rules! for Eurovision 2024.

    ‘He growls death metal in his pants!’
    The Eurovision 2024 bangers to watch out for

  • A man lifting a fish from the water with his hands

    Scaling up
    The app that’s transforming lives in South African fishing communities

In case you missed it

  • A composite image showing the three sisters.

    ‘They’ve destroyed us because of some tweets’
    Why has Saudi Arabia targeted these three sisters?

  • Four weddings and a funeral

    ‘I thought: “I’ve engineered the death of Hugh Grant!’’’
    The inside story of Four Weddings and a Funeral

    Cast and crew share their stories – from Liz Hurley in that dress to Amber Rudd’s role as an ‘aristocracy coordinator
  • A woman stands ankle deep in murky water in a slum alleyway.

    ‘I’ve only the clothes on my back’
    Lives swept away by floods in Kenya

    People living in Nairobi’s Mathare slum fear that if catastrophic flooding does not bring down their homes, the government will
  • Cesar Aira, smiling at the camera, scratches the back of his head. Behind him are some books on a shelf.

    César Aira’s unreal magic
    How the eccentric author took over Latin American literature

  • Two large vessels sit at an angle with their hulls out of the water behind a group of small wooden fishing boats

    ‘I’ve never seen anything like it’
    Can Jamaica adapt to the Caribbean’s increasingly unpredictable weather?

  • Donald Trump is selling an edition of the Bible.

    I bought Trump’s Bible
    A blasphemous, sticky nightmare

  • BJP candidates parade in a motorcade in Bangalore

    India
    Can Modi finally win over the southern states and reshape India’s electoral map?

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  • TOPSHOT-US-ENTERTAINMENT-FASHION-METGALA-CELEBRITY-MUSEUM<br>TOPSHOT - US actress Zendaya arrives for the 2024 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 6, 2024, in New York. The Gala raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. The Gala's 2024 theme is "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion." (Photo by Angela WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

    Met Gala 2024
    Dresses made out of sand, corsets and power poses

    The theme was JG Ballard’s 1962 short story, The Garden of Time, which meant references to decay, lots of florals and more than one look that seemed to have nothing to do with anything
  • Vladimir Putin takes the oath of office during his inauguration ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow

    Photos of the day
    Putin’s big day, Swiss guards and garbage-eating pigs

  • A person puts a banner up at a ornate window

    From Baghdad to Copenhagen
    Pro-Palestinian student protests around the world

  • 3) Karabo Mooki, Unified, Rockville, Soweto, 2016. Courtesy of the artist “Members of Free x Money are joined on the mic by TCIYF’s Thula 'Stroof' Sizwe. TCIYF have realised that since the shows don't come to them, they need to bring the shows to the township, bridging communities and giving birth to a cross- pollination of talents beyond racial and economic borders. Although the visit may seem taboo or unusual and new to many, there is a deep sense of hospitality and appreciation from both the hosts and the visiting residents.”

    Jumpin’ Johannesburg
    Soweto’s Afropunk skaters!

  • The singer/actor Lady Gaga wears a bright pink gown at the 2019 Met Gala event in New York City.

    The Met Gala through the years
    Lizzo’s flute, Billy Porter’s wings and Cher’s ‘naked dress’

  • A woman poses with her snakes

    Italy
    Snake catchers festival

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